@jessicaelgot in The Guardian:
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Labour Growth Group
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Labour Growth Group
@LabourGrowth
A group of Labour MPs committed to tearing down the barriers to growth. Tell us what's broken and give us ideas to fix it: [email protected]
Katılım Ağustos 2024
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Reform say the system is rigged. The Greens say everyday people are getting ripped off. They’re right, but neither is bold enough to fix it.
Torching energy security and price caps won’t remake our economy, just drive it into the ground. We’re working on something that can.
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ft.com/content/53f66c… Labour must not lose my generation of voters - Chris Curtis MP
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Labour cannot afford to write off the generations building Britain’s future.
If the Government cannot reforge the link between effort and reward, then young people will go elsewhere at election time.
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We welcome the PM's strong response to the @JohnFingleton1 Review. This is the first government in a generation serious about nuclear.
But 2027 must be a backstop, not a target. Reforms through in months, not years.
We can't afford any delay in securing Britain's energy supply.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero@energygovuk
For years our nuclear regulatory system hasn't worked. Today that changes with our plan to implement the recommendations of the @JohnFingleton1 review. 47 reforms. One lead regulator. A faster path to new nuclear projects & clean, secure power. Patrick Vallance explains 🎥
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Chris Curtis speaks to @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCRadio4:
Last night should tell us voters aren’t simply moving left or right. They’re moving away from a broken system that punishes grafters and rewards grifters.
We’ve been working on what this party needs: a plan to change that.
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The Tories tripled tuition fees, designed Plan 2 loans, and had over a decade to change them.
Now she's in opposition, all of a sudden Kemi's discovered she cares and wants credit for it.
Noa Hoffman@hoffman_noa
EXCL: Kemi Badenoch is mulling a plan to ease the student debt crisis crippling millions. The Tory leader is looking at help for graduates on controversial plan 2 student loans. The Sun understands Ms Badenoch wants to seize the issue as a vote-winner while rivals avoid it.
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What country are we trying to build?
Are we for those putting in the graft - innovating, working, training, investing for the future?
Are we willing to take on the grifters - skimming, ripping-off, gaming the broken system?
This is what we’re building. More soon.
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Today @darrenpjones set out big steps toward change we've been pushing for: reward the doers & learn from successes like the Vaccine Taskforce.
Whitehall and Westminster exist to deliver for the British public, not serve insiders.
The state is for the people, or it is nothing.
megan kenyon@meganekenyon
My piece on Darren Jones's pledge to "rewire Whitehall" at a speech in west London earlier today. The chief sec to the PM announced: 💥 New hiring processes for senior civil servants 💥 New performance measures for top civil servants already in post. (“If you are not performing, if you fail to perform, I’m afraid you will be sacked.”) 💥A raft of new taskforces in the model of the vaccine taskforce. (“We will apply the vaccine taskforce model in ‘peace time’ – not just in a crisis”). These measures echo the critiques put by Dominic Cummings, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, who has previously criticised civil service hiring and retention practices. @NewStatesman
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It doesn't have to be this way.
Our paper with @createstreets shows how to cut tram costs in half: reform utility rules, devolve approval, standardise delivery.
Other countries build trams for £42m/mile. Britain pays £87m. Fix the system, put the British people first.
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The British state can create plenty of profit from the idea of a tram, but can't deliver one.
Delay and review generate fees. While people in West Yorkshire lose another decade: punishing commutes, fewer opportunities.
The process class bills. The people pay the price.
Tom Forth@thomasforth
And there it is. Embargo is finished. Yorkshire Post press publish first. But I have my suspicions there's quite a lot more to this story than what they're reporting. yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Labour Growth Group retweetledi
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister committed to implementing ALL the recommendations from the Nuclear Taskforce.
TODAY you can track departments’ progress on implementing the PM’s priorities.
nuclear.britishprogress.org
@britishprogress is launching our Nuclear Taskforce Tracker – see exactly which recommendations are complete, on track or at risk of getting lost!
It’s also a searchable, filterable database of everything the UK needs to do to become a world leader in nuclear power again. Implementing these is one of the most important things Britain can do for long term growth. It’s vital that Government departments and regulators keep up the momentum.
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The system is broken. That is the message from the taskforce of experts @Keir_Starmer assembled to fix nuclear delivery in Britain.
The solution is radical reform, not tinkering. Government should accept and swiftly implement all 47 recommendations.
John Fingleton@JohnFingleton1
Britain needs nuclear power. Our nuclear projects are the most expensive in the world and among the slowest. Regulators and industry are paralysed by risk aversion. This can change. For Britain to prosper, it must. Earlier this year, the Prime Minister appointed me to lead a Taskforce to set out a path to getting affordable, fast nuclear power Britain. Our final report today sets out 47 recommendations, among them: - Creating a one-stop shop for nuclear approvals, to end the regulatory merry-go-round that delays projects at the moment. - Simplifying environmental rules to avoid extreme outcomes like Hinkley Point C spending £700m on systems to protect one salmon every ten years, while enhancing nuclear's impact on nature. - Limiting the ability of spurious legal challenges to delay nuclear projects, which adds huge cost and delay throughout the supply chain. - Approving fleets of reactors, so that Britain’s nuclear industry can benefit from certainty and economies of scale. - Directing regulators to factor in cost to their behaviour, and changing their culture to allow building cheaply, quickly and safely. - Changing the culture of the nuclear industry to end gold-plating and focus on efficient, safe delivery. If the government adopts our report in full, it will send a signal to investors that it is serious about pro-growth reform and taking on vested interests for the public good. A thriving British nuclear industry producing abundant, affordable energy would be good for jobs, good for manufacturing, good for the climate, and good for the cost of living. And it could enable Britain to become an AI and technology superpower. Britain can be a world leader in this new Industrial Revolution, but only if it has the energy to power it. Our report is bold, but balanced. Our recommendations, taken together and properly implemented, will forge a clear path for stronger economic growth through improved productivity and innovation. This is a prize worth fighting for. gov.uk/government/pub…
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Labour Growth Group retweetledi
I listen carefully to what Chris Curtis says. A big philosophical crisis is coming inside of Labour, and I think he's the clearest in articulating one side of it.
Peston@itvpeston
“Economically, we’ve basically screwed an entire generation” Labour MP Chris Curtis suggests that the poor economic outlook for young people explains the rapidly growing intergenerational divide in polling #Peston
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Labour Growth Group retweetledi
"Right across government, our failed system has rewarded those who take and punished those who make."
@LabourGrowth co-chair Chris Curtis MP at LFG: Make or Break 🚀
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Labour Growth Group retweetledi
Chris Curtis, chair of @LabourGrowth, is here at LFG Make or Break. It’s time for an economy which works for the grafters, not the grifters.
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The climate crisis demands we move FAST on clean energy infrastructure. Families struggling with bills need action NOW, not more lawyers and more delays.
This duty fails people AND the planet. Government should remove it and build. /End
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National Parks cover 10% of England. National Landscapes cover another 15%. That’s a quarter of the country.
When builders are restricted across 25% of England’s land, it inevitably slows critical infrastructure - from renewable energy to transport links. /4
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170 green groups demand Government keep a 2-year-old Tory planning rule blocking vital infrastructure and delaying grid connections that would bring cheaper, cleaner energy to millions.
Government should prioritise the needs of the British people and hold their nerve. 1/
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